Chapter 4652: Desperate Escape (31)

"Batman, I'm going to push the cage; can you stand steady?" Superman looked a bit worried, or rather, extremely anxious, constantly adjusting the angle, seemingly wanting to find an angle that wouldn't let Batman touch the cage bars to push it.

Batman stood with his feet apart, leaning against the diagonal of the cage. He crossed his arms and looked at Superman, saying: "Trust my balance."

Superman clearly didn't trust it much. When he reached out to touch the bars, he didn't even feel the current for a moment, only caring about looking at Batman's reaction, and was electrocuted to the point of crying out after the fact, but wouldn't let go.

"Clark, Clark!" Batman called him several times before he reacted. Batman said somewhat helplessly: "Don't be like this, Clark; we have to do it in one go."

"How can you ask me to do it in one go when it comes to hurting you? This is too anti-human!" Superman was clearly a bit angry, but not at Batman, but at the level designer; it could be seen that he had accumulated grievances for a long time.

Superman had never lacked courage and could always bring any evil to justice. However, the evil talent required to hurt others was even more than the justice talent. Superman not only lacked such talent but even had an instinctive disgust and rejection.

His arms began to tremble, but he gritted his teeth and said nothing. Because he knew Batman had to rely on him now, and as someone else's reliance, he couldn't be weak, just like Batman had always done.

Saying to himself countless times: This is just to clear the level, this is not my original intention, Batman will not suffer real harm. Superman seemed to have barely convinced himself; the reason it was barely was because his movements of pushing the cage were as slow as slow-motion shots.

He grabbed the middle-lower part of the cage bars with both hands and pushed forward little by little. It was called pushing the cage, but it was more like lifting the cage; although he borrowed the power of the iron chain, his own strength was more.

This clearly made him feel uncomfortable too. The cage was continuously discharging electricity. Every time he was electrocuted, the muscles all over his body were trembling, and his whole person was constantly shaking, with an abnormal redness appearing on his skin.

"Enough, Clark." Batman shouted, "Don't do this! Stop quickly. You only need to push it once!"

Superman seemed to have blocked his shouting, just like he didn't listen to Batman's orders many times, and used brute force to push forward. Unfortunately, such speed was really too slow and didn't meet the original intention of the exhaustion method at all.

Batman looked down at the water; it was almost submerging the support board below. If this continued, it wouldn't be as good as following the normal process. It seemed he could only do that.

Batman continued to spread his legs wider, even if his feet touched the bars, he didn't care. He spread his arms, grabbed the two bars furthest apart, combined his waist and horse stance, and exerted force violently to swing like a swing.

That's right, this mechanism could also be driven by the person in the cage, which was precisely the interesting part. When the water hadn't risen, the person in the cage could use the exhaustion method like swinging on a swing. In this way, one person wouldn't be electrocuted at all.

And Thor adopted this method. He directly let Loki stand aside, he himself entered the cage, closed the door, and then started swinging on the swing. Loki was speechless.

It wasn't that he didn't want to stop it; he couldn't stop it at all. As soon as he said he wanted to stop it, Thor pressed him there. Here he couldn't use those deceitful spells of his, and couldn't persuade him with words, so he really had no moves at all.

Later, Loki was so angry that he wished to see Thor being electrocuted and screaming. But I don't know if this guy had too many injuries and no feeling, or if he was just tough and didn't scream. He swung on the swing in the cage as if he wasn't being electrocuted at all, without making a sound.

Instead, it was like this, and Loki became more and more uncomfortable. He leaned against the wall and turned around, not wanting Thor to see his tears. As a result, Thor let out a cry, Loki looked back subconsciously, and Thor let out another cry, then smiled at him.

"You just love to see this, right? Every time those tricks of yours succeed, and I scream and jump in the trap, you are happy and clap your hands." Thor smiled, but one could see his arms trembling a bit, "Although this trap wasn't set by you, you can also smile; it's better than crying."

Loki just stood there blankly. He didn't know what to say, nor did he know how to react, just unable to control his tears.

"You're done for, Thor," Loki said while wiping his tears, "I'll tell Frigga what you did when I go back. I'll also tell Odin. You're done for..."

"No matter what, the number of times I've made you laugh is more than the number of times I've made you cry." Thor was still swinging there, "Frigga and Odin both know this, so they won't do anything either. You should consider, if Frigga knew you were almost pierced through by steel needles..."

"You are not allowed to tell her," Loki raised his voice, "When the two of us went out, Frigga said, you have to listen to me. I said you are not allowed to say it, which means you are not allowed to say it!"

Thor exerted force violently again, and the cage hit the wall on the left. This time, only a *click* sound was heard, and the door opened directly. Thor was still a bit dazed when he fell out, and Loki was also stunned. Subsequently, the iron chain of the cage slowly tightened, and the entire cage began to rise.

Thor touched the cage bars, confirmed there was no electricity, waved at Loki, and said: "Come up quickly; we should have guessed right."

When he was dragged to the top of the cage by Thor, Loki was still dazed. Until the round disk above opened, revealing the exit, and the cage rose all the way like an elevator, coming to the vicinity of the round disk, he discovered: Thor's luck was simply outrageously good. This round disk had a total of eight directions, and it had to be swung in three directions to open. Thor swung a total of four times; except for the first time, he guessed right every time. What kind of hellish luck was this?

"Do you know what the most important quality of a battlefield commander is?" Thor shook his hair and said, "It's not wisdom, nor courage, but luck. If my luck weren't good, I would have died long ago."

Loki was also speechless. Didn't he know how good Thor's dog luck was? All of Asgard knew about the World Tree's favoritism toward him; every time he could turn bad luck into good, and meet difficulties and turn them into auspiciousness. Even being thrown to Earth, he could make a bunch of fox friends. Although he encountered many difficulties, there were almost no times when he was truly in a desperate situation; it all relied on a hand of luck.

"Our luck isn't very good." Pamela shook her head and said, "These eight directions have all been swung, and there's no correct answer at all. The water is about to touch you; why don't you come down first?"

"What if I come down and the mechanism stops?" Harley said, "I'm afraid we have to overestimate the viciousness of the level designer; it's better not to take risks."

Pamela had to continue shaking the cage. Their luck was really bad to the extreme. In fact, those three directions didn't distinguish order, but they had to be pushed relatively precisely, that is, they had to be exactly those three directions, and couldn't be biased.

Under normal circumstances, when a person is in the cage, every time they push, they have to be very cautious, otherwise they would be electrocuted in vain. They simply wouldn't be electrocuted, and pushing was also as they pleased, this time that time, not pushing in the right place at all, resulting in solving it very slowly.

Fortunately, Pamela was also more cautious later, and started pushing according to the angle of the room. She tried the cross and diagonal of the room one by one. With a *click*, the cage door opened, and the entire cage began to rise slowly.

Pamela touched the cage and there was no electricity, so she entered, and shouted at Harley: "You come up quickly—"

"No, I won't come up. This angle might be able to see more." Harley said, "You forgot the person shadow we saw through that small gap? I didn't see clearly last time, this time I must catch their horse's feet."

The cage rose slowly, and Harley hung underneath. Logically, it was no different from the perspective of standing normally, but she played another acrobatic trick: wrapped her two legs around the cage bars, and after letting go of her hands, her whole body fell down, hanging upside down under the cage. In this way, she could look up from below.

And she really saw the clues.

When the cage rose like an elevator, it would cross the floor of the layer above. Although when passing through the floor, one could see the structure of the floor layer, the surroundings of the passage were all wrapped up, and one couldn't see the specific structure looking down from above. Only Harley took a different path; she looked up from below and found that the place where the round disk blocking the passage was fixed had a gap with the structure on the side of the floor layer, and looking up from below, she could just see into that opening.

As luck would have it, there was really some firelight in that opening. Harley didn't scream this time. She just held her breath, and while the cage was rising slowly, she silently lay outside the gap to watch.

One, two, three, four, five, six...

Harley slowly covered her mouth. When the cage rose completely, she jumped down from above and whispered to Pamela: "Just now I saw a passage, and someone walked past inside. There were six people."

Pamela's hair stood on end. She said: "Are you sure you didn't see it wrong?"

"Absolutely impossible to be wrong; I didn't just see shadows, I saw their people. They walked along the passage, as if they were going up..."

Harley was also a bit nervous, because that scene was really somewhat terrifying. Don't look at her as a mental patient, but she never played horror instances. And unlike others, most people would be more afraid of jump scares, but Harley, because her association ability was stronger and her thinking was more active, was more afraid of some psychological horror bridges. That just now could be completely called psychological horror.

At this time, Pamela raised a key question: "Do you think seeing them is within the plot?"

Harley shook her head and said: "That opening doesn't look like it was specially designed for peeping; it looks a bit like the edge wrapping wasn't finished. The shape is a bit strange, and it's not seen clearly. And if it were specially designed, it wouldn't require such a strange posture to be seen, right? It's not that I'm saying, except for me, probably only Dick could do it. Batman would be struggling; his thigh muscles are too strong."

Pamela thought and said: "If it's not a deliberately designed peeping plot, then it's that the Domain administrator didn't notice when designing the level, which should be considered a spoiler in advance."

"What do you think those six people are doing?"

"It can't be cleaners or repairmen; on one hand, they didn't bring tools, and on the other hand, why would six people need to go together to repair something? Arresting fugitives doesn't need to be like this either, right?"

"That's hard to say, what if the fugitive is Batman?"

"Forget it, let's go to the next level first. This key information can always come in handy." ===== CHAPTER 4653 =====